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Rendition Case Under Bush Gets Obama Backing

The Obama administration backed the Bush administration's arguments
in a lawsuit involving the practice of seizing terror suspects abroad
and sending them to third countries for questioning.

The case involves five men who claim U.S. operatives abducted them
and sent them to be tortured in other countries. The men are suing a
unit of Boeing
Co., which they say provided aircraft to the Central Intelligence
Agency for the "extraordinary rendition" program. Boeing declined to
comment on the case...